audacity VS audacious

#5467 Fix 24-bit recording.

The time stretch algorithm is implemented in https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/libraries/l... particularly functions _time_stretch and _process_hop. It looks to me like a classic phase vocoder with vertical phase coherence (c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_vocoder).

The basic idea is this. For a time-stretch factor of, say, 2x, the frequency spectrum of the stretched output at 2 sec should be the same as the frequency spectrum of the unstretched input at 1 sec. The naive algorithm therefore takes a short section of signal at 1s, translates it to 2s and adds it to the result. Unfortunately, this method generates all sorts of unwanted artifacts.

Imagine a pure sine wave. Now take 2 short sections of the wave from 2 random times, overlap them, and add them together. What happens? Well, it depends on the phase of each section. If the sections are out of phase, they cancel on the overlap; if in phase, they constructively interfere.

The phase vocoder is all about overlapping and adding sections together so that the phases of all the different sine waves in the sections line up. Thus, in any phase vocoder algorithm, you will see code that searches for peaks in the spectrum (see _time_stretch code). Each peak is an assumed sine wave, and corresponding peaks in adjacent frames should have their phases match.

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases

If you are able to build from source, you could download the latest source code, or the latest release version source code, and manually apply the patch.

FWIW: We'll be ditching the atlases for 3.4 most likely, in favor of having themes work like they do in source anyway: With individual PNGs for the icons and a Colors.txt containing all the color definitions. With that, custom themes would be much easier to author and also would stop breaking every time we introduce a new icon.

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/4639 this bug mentions everything, I guess it's Audacity after all. To be fixed in 3.3.2

No there isn't. I searched in vain for a workaround, and then checked the Audacity issues and found this: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/3385

I usually just use mpv since it's the simplest and most flexible. You might be looking for something like Audacious though, which is great too

Audacious is a more popular media player app that supports Winamp skins and a media library.

This may interest you,and it is Qt,plus can be used with MPD. https://audacious-media-player.org/

the new version of audacious has a vu meter and its also available to windows https://audacious-media-player.org/

Audacious audio player.

Find a GUI player you like (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications#Graphical_13 for a non-exhaustive list; ISTR Audacious being mentioned as a Winamp clone) and add it to your autostart items (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Autostarting#On_desktop_environment_startup).

Yes, Winamp works well on Linux through wine, I have been using it for a long time myself. Although recently I have also been using audacious, which runs more smoothly and is better integrated with Linux (as it is a native application) and it also has support for Winamp skins, so it's a fairly good drop-in replacement (as long as you're not relying on some esoteric plugins or file formats).

im not the parent commenter but i highly recommend audacious for linux and windows. plays every audio format you have, doesn’t enforce a specific music library folder structure, and supports winamp skins(!) https://audacious-media-player.org/

Effectively succeeded by Audacious:

https://audacious-media-player.org/

... which is under active development/maintenance.